M F Holston River near Meadowview, VA Water Level Today

NWS river forecast

Forecast from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service. Issued a few times a day and only while a forecast is active. Not for navigation.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 03475000 sits on the M F Holston River and reads everything draining 206 square miles of the South Fork Holston basin. Its datum sits 1,820 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1932, 71 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is M F Holston River at Seven Mile Ford, VA, reading 132 square miles. This gauge adds the 74 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from South Fork Holston River below South Holston Dam, TN at 703 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 29% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The M F Holston River runs a median of 144 cfs at this gauge across 71 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 333 cfs, and October the leanest at 81 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 8,220 cfs in 1977, and the lowest is 7.0 cfs in 1951.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1932 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's South Holston Dam is 20 miles from this gauge on the South Fork Holston system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• South Holston Dam 20 miles